Proverbs Chapter 27 Gives Account on Character You May Not Know You Possess

Proverbs On Prohibitions

Becoming boastful, high-minded, envious and other negative traits…

How you conduct yourself with others, others will treat you the same.

Be of a humble example or role model to others. That others may repeat the same back to you.

“Thinking Highly Of Yourself”

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you know not what a day may bring.
27:1
Let another praise you, not your own mouth; a stranger, not your own lips.
27:2
A stone has weight and sand has mass, but the anger of a fool is heavier than both.
27:3
Wrath is cruelty, and anger is torrential, but who can withstand envy?
:4
Open rebuke is good, if it stems from hidden love.
:5
As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens his fellow.
:17
As water reflects a face back to a face, so one’s heart is reflected back to him by another.
:19
[As] the grave and Gehinnom are not sated, [so] the eyes of man are not sated.
:20

1 Do not boast for tomorrow, for you do not know what the day will bear.
2 May a stranger praise you and not your mouth, an alien and not your lips.
3 The weight of a stone and the burden of sand-the anger of a fool is heavier than both.
4 Cruelty of wrath, and destruction of anger, but who can stand up before jealousy?
5 Open rebuke is better than concealed love.
6 Wounds of a lover are faithful, whereas kisses of an enemy are burdensome.
7 A sated soul tramples honeycomb, but to a hungry soul all bitter is sweet.
8 As a bird wandering from its nest, so is a man wandering from his place.
9 Oil and incense make the heart rejoice, and the sweet words of his friend more than one’s own counsel.
10 Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not enter your brother’s house on the day of your misfortune; a close neighbor is better than a distant brother.
11 Be wise, my son, and cause my heart to rejoice, that I may answer him who taunts me.
12 A cunning man saw harm and hid, but fools passed and were punished.
13 Take his garment because he stood surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge for an alien woman.
14 He who blesses his friend in a loud voice early every morning, it shall be considered a curse for him.
15 A constant dripping on a rainstormy day, and a quarrelsome woman, are alike.
16 He who guards her guards the wind, and he calls “the oil of his right hand.”
17 Iron sharpens iron, and a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
18 He who guards a fig-tree shall eat its fruit, and he who guards his master shall be honored.
19 As in water, face answers to face, so is the heart of a man to a man.
20 The grave and Gehinnom will not be sated, and the eyes of man will not be sated.
21 The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, and a man according to his praise.
22 If you crush the fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, his folly will not leave him.
23 Know well the condition of your flocks; give your attention to the herds.
24 For riches are not forever, neither is a crown for generations.
25 When the hay is carried away and the grass is visible, and the grasses of the mountains have been gathered,
26 there will be lambs for your clothing, and he-goats are the worth of the field;
27 and enough goat milk for your food, for the food of your household, and sustenance for your maidens.